Mother Of Murdered Backpacker Slams Trump

The White House put Mia Ayliffe-Chung's death on a 'terrorist list'

Fairfax/SuppliedMia Ayliffe-Chung was killed at a Queensland hostel in 2015.

The mother of a young woman stabbed to death in a Queensland backpacker hostel has slammed a claim by the White House her daughter's murder was a terrorist attack.

Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 20 was stabbed to death at a hostel in Queensland in August along with Thomas Jackson, 30, in August last year. Police have ruled out terrorism as a motive, and a French national has been charged with both murders.

The inclusion of here daughter's death on a list of 78 'terrorist attacks' by the White House has angered Rosie Ayliffe, who says her daughter's death must not be used to persecute innocent people.

Fairfax/SuppliedMia Ayliffe-Chung, 20, was killed in a Queensland backpacker's in a crime police say isn't terror related. The White House angered Mia's mother, Rosie Ayliffe, by claiming it was a terrorist attack.

"Treating immigrants as disposable commodities and disregarding their safety causes deaths throughout our so-called civilised world," Ayliffe said in an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump.

"The possibility of Mia and Tom's deaths being consequent to an Islamic terror attack was discounted in the early stages of the police investigation.

"One of the reasons I took to blogging... was to dispel discount the myth of a connection between my daughter's death and Islamic fundamentalism. Any fool can shout Allahu Akbar as they commit a crime."

Queensland Police said in a statement that the crimes were not about race or religion, but individual criminal behaviour.

Taking aim at Trump's travel ban, Ayliffe said the vilification of nation's and their people based on religion is a "terrifying reminder of the horror that can ensue when we allow ourselves to be led by ignorant people into darkness and hatred".

The White House list was used to underscore Trump's claim the media is under-reporting global terror attacks.

As an example, the administration used a examples such as the widely reported and heavily covered terror attacks in Nice, Brussels and Germany.

It also included five Australian incidents, including the 2014 Lindt Cafe Siege in Sydney and the 2015 murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta.

Both incidents gained widespread media coverage.

U.S. journalists have been quick to tear down Trump's claims about the list.